Wristwatch Annual 2003

Wristwatch Annual 2003Every year hundreds of new wristwatches are introduced. Some feature innovative designs or mechanical improvements, and others are available only in limited editions, keeping the field interesting for collectors. Following the success of the previous edition, this new annual highlights hundreds of the year's most extraordinary wristwatches in close up color photographs accompanied by complete specifications, giving collectors a wealth of up to date

An essay by legendary New York newsman Pete Hamill

Scientists believe these ancient giants are being dehydrated by drought and higher temperatures

but their joy is to be short-lived

and did the hard work that kept ordinary families fed and clothed

in her introductions

Not to mention new research and information on:

the doings of faeries

like Lucian Freud and R

featuring an impressive collection of Tiffany lamps

Wonders of the Indian Wilderness provides a lavish celebration of India’s unique natural treasure and a call to preserve it in the years to come

hollow-trunked yews—some more than a thousand years old—that grow in English churchyards

the Chinese stylized and combined their pictographs